Machine for washing and rinsing bottles.



No. 736,769. PATENTED AUG. 18, 1903. G. G. PARKER.

MACH INE FOR WASHING AND, RINSING BOTTLES.

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improved machine.

UNITED STATES.

Patented August 18, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES C. PARKER, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 736,769, dated August 18, 1903.

Application filed November 29,1902. $erial No. 133,201. (No model.)

T to whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES C. PARKER,

of the city of Baltimore, State of Maryland, have invented certain Improvements in Machines for Washing and Rinsing Bottles, of which the following is a specification.

In the description of the said invention which follows reference is made to theaccompanying drawings, forming a part hereof, in which-- Figure 1 is an exterior side elevation of the Fig. 2 is a vertical central side section of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a partly sectional rear view of the machine orone looking in the direction indicated by the arrow in either Fig. 1 or Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a sectional plan of Fig. 2, taken on the dotted line a a. Fig. 5 is a similar section taken on the dotted line b b. Fig. 6 is an enlarged sectional plan of the central portion of Fig. 2, taken on the dotted line 0 c. Fig. 7 is an enlarged detail of Fig. 2.

Referring now to the drawings, 1 is a pan to the bottom of which is secured the fixed column 2.

3 is 'a table having a circumferential apron 6, which extends into the pan 1, adapted to rotate about the column 2 and supported by the flange 4 of its hub, which rests on a shoulder 5, formed by reducing the diameter of a column. Antifriction-balls, placed between suitable rings of hard metal, are inserted between the fiange 4 and the shoulder 5 in order that the table may be easily turned by hand.

7 is an immovable hood, open at the bottom and closed at the top, secured in any suitable manner to the upper part of the column 2. The lower edge of the hood is nearly in contact with the upper surface of the table 3, and

the cylindrical wall is provided with an open-' ing 9 at the front of the machine, whereat the operator stands.

. 10 is a master gear-wheel, elevated slightly above the table 3, adapted to rotate about the central fixed column 2. Itis supported by means of its hub, which bears on a shoulder 12, formed above the shoulder 5, before referred to.

To the hub of the master gear-wheel 10 is fastened the sleeve 13, carrying the miter gear-wheel 14, which rotates about the fixed column 2, This miter gear-wheel is in mesh with another miter gear-wheel, 15, fast on the driving-shaft 17, which is j ournaled in a bracket 19, extending laterally from and fastened to the top of the column 2.

21 and 22 are respectively a driving and a loose pulley on the shaft 17. To admit of the meshing of the said miter gear-wheels, the one, 15, passes through a slot in the crown of the hood 7.

24 24 are spur-pinions, shown as twelve in number, arranged equidistant apart and with their hubs adapted to turn loosely in holes 25 in the table 3. They are in mesh with the master spur gear-wheel 10 and driven by it. The upper portion of the hub of each pinion 24 is considerably extended and reduced in diameter to produce a shoulder, and over the reduced portion is placed a loose bottle-seat 27, having an internal gasket 29, of rubber or some other suitable substance, adapted to form a tight joint with the head of a bottle when in contact therewith. The bottles are denoted by X.

is a star-wheel forming a part of the bot tle-seat 27, arranged to engage with pins 32 on the under side of a fixed disk or table 33, fastened to the lower end of a stationary cylinder 34, dependent from the head of the hood 7, to which it is secured. With this arrangement when the table 3 is rotated the bottleseats are turned intermittently by the starwheels coming in contact with the fixed pins 32.

Over each bottle-seat is a bottle-holder con sisting of aweighted cross-head 37, adapted to have a vertical reciprocating movement be tween two of a series of guide-rods 39, which pass through and are fastened 'to the rotary table 3. (See Figs. 3 and 4.) This cross-head has an upward extension 40, carrying a horizontal pin 42, with a loose roller 43 at its end, which roller is adapted to engage with a camshaped flange, 44 at the periphery of the circular plate 45, secured to the cylinder 34, before referred to. The cam serves to lift the weighted cross-head as the same is brought opposite the opening 9 in the hood 7 at the front of the machine whereat the operator stands, as will be hereinafter more particularly described. The weighted cross-head is centrally bored, and in the holethereby formed is adapted to slide a stem with a cap This cap covers the bot- 46 at its lower end.

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tom of a bottle when the head of the same is resting in its seat, as shown particularly in Figs. 2 and 3.

The vertical adjustment of the circular plate 45 and its cam to admit of the holding of bottles of different lengths or heights is effected by means of the screw 47, supported by and arranged to rotate within a bearing 49,

- fastened to the cylinder 34. The adjustingserew is turned by means of the hand-wheel 50.

52 is a hollow bar having an exterior square or other polygonal cross-section adapted to slide within the bottle-seat 29, whereby it is rotated, and its lower end is secured within a rotary collar 54 in a cross-head 55, similar to the one 37 before referred to, and which, like it, is adapted to slide between the guide-rods 39. (See Fig. 3.) This second cross-head is provided with a roller 59, which rests on a cam 60 at the circumference of a skeleton plate 62, fastened to the column 2 near to its'bottom and within the pan 1. From this description it will be understood that in the operation of the machine the hollow rod 52 is rotated within the bottle-seat and when elevated within the bottle through the medium of the master gear-wheel 10 and the pinion 24, and this independently of the cross-head 57, in which the collar 54 is seated.

Within the hollow bar 52 is placed a nonrotary water-conveying tube 64, with its lower end secured in the cross-head 57, and the said bar carries a brush 65,formed, preferably, of a piece of rubber tubing stretched over the top of the rod 52, with the portion which is above the water-conveying tube slit into several strips. The tube 64 is quite loose in the hollow rod 52, so that there is around the former an annular space for the escape of water from the bottle, as hereinafter described.

The cross-head 57 is provided with a latteral nozzle 67 in communication with the water-conveying tube 64, to which nozzle is attached one end of a flexible tube or pipe 69. The other end of the flexible tube is connected to a nozzle 70, screwed into a ring 72, having lugs 73, which interlock with one of the ribs of the rotary table 3. By reference to Fig. 2 it will be seen that the ring 72, which rotates with the table 3, is bored tapering, and between it and the column 2 is a tapered ring 74. (See particularly Fig. 6, which is an enlarged cross-section of Fig. 2 taken on the dotted line 00.) The ring 74 is provided with two segmental circumferential slots 75, which pass horizontally through it and are in communication with an annular groove 77 in the column 2, and this groove communicates with theinterior of the column by means of ports 79. The position of the blank spacing-pieces 76 and 78, between the segmental slots 75, I with reference to the front of the machine at which the operator stands and the result which-they effect will be described hereinafter in the description of the operation of the machine.

80 is a service Water-pipe whereby water under pressure is conducted to the interior of the column 2, and 82 a drain-pipe to carry off waste water from the pan 1.

The rotary table 3, exteriorly of the hood 9, has a series of pockets 84, into which bottles to be washed are placed and from which they are taken by the operator and inserted in the bottle-seats, as hereinafter described.

85 85 are stationarybrushes arranged around the stationary cylinder 34 and supported by the fixed disk 33 and the circular cam-plate 45 (see Figs. 2 and 4) to cleanse the outer surface of the bottles as they, While in rotation, come in contact with them. Several of these brushes are omitted at the front of the machine in order to provide space for the placing of the bottles to be washed in the bottle-seats. The brushes are drenched with water; but the pipes for this purpose are omitted from the drawings for the reason that their delineation would tend to obscure other parts of the machine.

86 isa stationary brush (see Fig. 1) of any suitable character situated exteriorly of and supported by the hood 7 at or near the rear of the machine to brush the bottom of the bottles as the table is rotated and before they are removed from their pockets by the operator and placed in their seatsin the rotary table, as hereinafter described.

The operation of the machine is as follows: As before stated, the operator stands at the front of the machine, which is to the left of Figs. 1 and 2, with an assistant stationed at or near the rear, who keeps the pockets 84 supplied with unwashed bottles. By reference to Fig. 2 it will be seen that the upper weighted cross-head 37, which is in front of the operator, is in its highest position, owing to its roller resting on the highest part of the cam 44, and that the roller of the lower crosshead 57 is seated on the lowest portion of the cam 60, with the upper ends of the watertube 64 and the hollow bar 52 and the brush below the gasket 29 of the bottle -seat. By reason of the upper weighted cross-head being fully elevated the cap of the bottle-holder is easily lifted independently of the crosshead by means of a bottle as the operator places its head in the bottle-seat beneath. At this time the wash-water is cut off from the water-conveying tube 64 owing to the passage leading to the nozzle 7 0 being over and closed by the fixed blank piece 76, as shown in Fig. 6. The operator now turns the table 3 to the right, or in the direction indicated by the curved arrow in Fig. 4, until the next bottle-seat comes to the front, when another unwashed bottle is placed in position in its seat, and this operation is continued as long as the machine is in operation. As each bottle is .moved a distance which will bring its nozzle past the end of the blank piece 76 (see Fig. 6) water is admitted to the nozzle and thence through the flexible tube 69 and the tube 64 to the bottle, and while the water is flowing the tube 64 and its hollow square bar 52, carrying the brush 65, rises, the rotary brush cleaning the inner surface of the bottle.

the introduction of water is again suspended,

and remains cut oif until the said blank spacing-piece is passed, and duringcthe stoppage of the flow of water the bottle is emptied. The secondary admission of water, which takes placeafter the nozzle leaves the second spacing-piece 78, serves to rinse the bottle and remove any dirt which may have been left by the wash-water.

It will be understood that the rapidly-rotating brush ascends until thebottle reaches the rear of the machine, as the cam upon which the roller 59 of the cross-head 57 rides is highest at that point, and then descends until the bottle reaches the starting-place at the front of the machine, when the cleanedbottle is removed by the operator and another unwashed bottle substituted for it. l n p The bottle during its progress, as described, is slowly rotated on its axis through the medium of the star-wheel 30 and the pins 32 on the underside of the fixed disk or .table 33 and its entireouter surface cleansed by contact with the fixed brushes 85 and 86.

The foregoing description of the washing and rinsing of one of the bottlesjappliesto all.

I claim as my invention- 1. In a machine forwashing and rinsing bottles, the combination of a rotary table having pockets near its circumference for the reception of unwashed bottles, a centrally-situated stationary master gear-wheel, a series of pinions arranged around the said master gearwheel and in mesh therewith, with their hubs adaptedto rotatein holes in the said table, bottle-seats mounted on, and adapted to rotate independently of the said spur-pinions, and provided wit-h star-wheels, a stationary disk or plate having pins with which the starwheels engage in the rotation of the table and so eifect the rotationof the bottle-seats on their axes, devices to clamp or hold the bottles with their heads in thesaid seats, hollow bars adapted to have a vertical reciprocating movement within and through the said spurpinions and bottle-seats and to be rotatedby the former, brushes atthe ends of thesaid hollow bars, water conveying pipes placed loosely in the said hollow bars, means to introduce water intermittently into the said pipes in the rotation of the table, and mechanism to effect a reciprocating movement of the said hollow bars withtheir brushes and water-conveyin g tubes, substantially as specified.

2. In a machine for washing and rinsing bottles, the combination of a rotary table having a series of pockets near its circumference for the reception of unwashed bottles, a stationary master gear-wheel, a series of pinions arranged around the said master gear-whecl and in mesh with the same, with their hubs adapted toturn in holes in the said table, bottle-seats mounted loosely on the said pinions carrying starwvheels, a fixed central plate having pins which engage with the said star-wheels, hold-.

ers to keep the bottles seated, vertically-reciprocating brushes driven by the master gearwheel and the pinions, and means to introduce theminto the bottles through the said pinions and thebottle-seats, substantially as specified.

In a machine for washing and rinsing bottles, the combination of a central fixed column, a table supported by and adapted to 1'0- tate about the said column, having a series of pinions with their hubs seated and adapted to turn in holes in the rotary table, a stationary master gear-wheel supported by the said central column with its teeth in engagement with those of the pinions,bottle-seats mounted on and adapted to turn independently of the pinions carrying star-wheels, a fixed disk or plate having pins which engage with the starwheels and thereby rotate the bottle-seats on their axes as the table is rotated about the central column, brushes driven by the said pinions, and means to introduce them into the bottles through the said pinions and bottleseats, substantially as specified.

4. I11 a machine for washing and rinsing bottles, the combination of a fixed central column, a table supported by the said col umn and susceptible of a rotary movement about the same, thesaid table carrying bottightly in contact with the seats by the force of gravity, and mechanism to elevate the O I u said bottle-holders when in the rotation of thetable, they are brought to a certainpoint whereat the bottles are to be placed on their seats, substantially as specified.

5. I11 a machine for washing and rinsing bottles, devices to wash the inner surface of a bottle while the same is heldin a vertical position with its head down, which comprise a rapidly-rotating hollow bar having a brush at its upper end and a non-rotary water-convcying tube which is loose within the said hollow bar, combined with mechanism to introduce said bar, water-conveying tube and brush into the bottle and vertically reciprocate them within the same, substantially as specified.

G. In a machine for washing and rinsing bottles, devices to wash the inner surface of a bottle held ina vertical position with its head down, comprising a rapidly-rotating hollow bar havinga brush at its upper end and a water-conveying tube which is loose in the said hollow bar, combined with 1119011131111 ism to vertically reciprocate the brush within the bottle and intermittingly introduce washwater into the same substantially as specified.

7. In a machine for washing and rinsing bottles comprising a rotary table having seats face of the said bottles during the rotation of the table, a stationary hood suspended over thesaid rotary table to separate the bottles in the peripheral pockets from the bottleseats, the said hood having an opening at one side thereof through which bottles taken from the said pockets may be entered into the hood and placed in the bottle-seats on the table, substantially as specified.

CHAS. C. PARKER. Witnesses:

OREGON MILTON DENNIS, WVM. T. HOWARD. 

